Tree 7-25 m tall. Leaves 6-10 cm long. Male inflorescences with two opposite sessile scar-covered slender brachyblasts 10-20 mm long, the central axis reduced to one flower or absent. Male flowers: pedicel 1 mm long; buds (ellipsoid-)oblong, 3.5 by 1.5 mm, cleft c. 1/4, lobes 0.8 mm long. Androecium 2.8-3 mm; androphore about as wide as the synandrium, 1.5 mm long, glabrous; synandrium 1.5 by 0.7 mm, thecae 10-12, sterile apex blunt, 0.2 mm. Female flowers: pedicel 1-2 mm long, bracteole scar subapi-cal; buds ovoid-oblong, 4.5 by 2.5-3 mm, somewhat narrowed to the apex, cleft c. 1/5, lobes 1 mm long; ovary ovoid-oblong, 3.5 by 2 mm, narrowed into 0.4 mm long stigma, hairs dense, 0.1 mm. Fruits not seen.